Priest’s jail term

Priest’s jail term

News of the marriage emerged after his wife, mother-of-two Beverley Dawson, gave evidence at Bradford Crown Court.

In what Judge Roger Thomas QC called an “enormous breach of trust”, Father William Finnegan touched the 17-year-old’s bottom and kissed her “passionately” at St Mary’s Roman Catholic Church in Fagley, Bradford, last year.

News of the marriage emerged after his wife, mother-of-two Beverley Dawson, gave evidence at Bradford Crown Court.